

Jordan Gibbs, 12 February 2020
Measuring the
holistic value of
arts and culture
The Culture Counts online survey platform empowers arts and cultural organisations to evaluate the impact of their programs and events.
Our platform is designed around Culture Counts’ Six-Step Evaluation Process – a Theory of Change methodology we are passionate about. Why? The process helps organisations effectively turn insights into actions and to tell a better story with data. Culture Counts has helped arts and cultural organisations to:
In the lead up to the 2018 Festival, Perth Festival engaged Culture Counts to establish an evaluation framework that measures the event's unique impact on its audience members and stakeholders, in an aim to quantify the significant artistic, cultural, place-based, social and economic outcomes that the Festival achieves with its diverse program each year. “This is Perth’s Festival’s second year using the Culture Counts model, and it has become a central part of our organisational planning. We now have a better understanding of our audiences, where they come from, why they engage with us and how we can continue to engage with them in the future.”
Nathan Bennet,
Executive Director,
Perth Festival
Jordan Gibbs, 12 February 2020
Michael Chappell, 11 December 2019
Michael Chappell, 26 July 2017
Michael Chappell, Managing Director Culture Counts. Wednesday July 26th 2017, Canberra Theatre Centre.
Georgia Moore, 5 June 2017
Cultural managers and practitioners increasingly seek to understand and measure the impact of their projects on communities. This is important for best practice operation and ensuring the responsible use of public funds, and is increasingly demanded by funding bodies and decision-makers.